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Wrapped up my last lecture for #Chem255 this spring! 🎉📚It’s been a rewarding semester diving into #Crystallography and sharing the joy of #StructureScience with the #AmazingStudents Harvard Chemistry 🎤💥 Now preparing #FinalExam questions for next week🤔🧠 #education #structurelife

Congratulations to Dr. Su-Yang Xu, Harvard University, for being named a 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar! Harvard Chemistry #DreyfusAwards

🤗🤗Grading the #FinalExam for #Chem255 has been a joy! Immensely proud of the incredible progress our #undergraduate and #graduate students made this spring at Harvard Chemistry 🥳🥳youtube.com/watch?v=TbqhoB… #Crystallography #Education

A student Harvard Chemistry spotted a structure with R1 = 0.9813 (!) in pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… CCDC Cambridge 😱😱and used what he learned in #Chem255 to refine it to R1 < 0.06—after squeezing out mystery solvents. What an achievement 🥳🥳 IUCr #crystallography #education

📢How #photocrystallography can help your research: "Merging cryogenic #photochemistry with #SingleCrystal reaction environments provides a #unique opportunity for molecular synthesis of reactive species." 🥳#crystallography #education

This week's reading suggestion: J. Chem. Educ. 2021, 98, 3180−3188. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jc… #Crystallography Have a nice week!

College students aren’t reading — at least not like they used to. What’s going on? And how are professors responding? Watch our explainer. chroni.cl/44W4rUH

Congrats to Nick Betley Group Harvard Chemistry! 😀😀This work shows how a terminal ylide ligand transforms into bridging methylidyne and carbide species 👏🧪doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5… J. Am. Chem. Soc. #crystallography

Using alternative methods/solvents to avoid DCM benefits the institution, student/staff health, and the environment 👍👍 Plus, it helps with structure refinement 😉😉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… IUCr #crystallography #disorder #education

Congrats to Faith, Jason, Jinyoung, Hailey & Malia at Mason group Harvard Chemistry! 😀😀 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5… J. Am. Chem. Soc. #crystallography

A good read: "popular SHELXL-like #WeightingScheme leads to #bias in residuals when the standard #uncertainty values of the observed intensities are underestimated, which appears to be the case very frequently" 😀doi.org/10.1107/S16005… Journal of Applied Crystallography #crystallography #education

The sixth video of the “Women in Crystallography” series, supported by the Royal Society of Chemistry and European Crystallographic Association (ECA) can be watched at youtube.com/watch?v=RsuPip…. The speaker is Natalia Alvarez, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República Universidad de la República.

Just about anything in a #PowderDiffractometer can give surprising insights—and sometimes new #science! 🎯🧪#EverythingReallyIsASample!🥳🥳doi.org/10.1063/4.0000… IUCr #crystallography #education #K12 #outreach

While tracking down an unusual #linear H–N=C structure, a student Harvard Chemistry spotted a case where O was misassigned as N 😱🧠🔬 doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.… #crystallography #education

In his article “At the movies,” Kahr offers a fascinating reflection on science, education, and inclusion—then and now. iucr.org/news/newslette… #WomenInSTEM #IUCrNewsletter #ScienceHistory

The #DisplacementParameters are mostly considered a convenient way to lower the refinement statistics—they're 🔑 to finding #accurate atomic positions😀😀 doi.org/10.1107/S20522… IUCr #crystallography #education

An easy walkthrough with a simplified process 😊🔍 youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rrf6… Bruker #crystallography #education

A student is asking a good question: "Has the #isolated carbon(I) species featuring a #CarboneCationRadical truly been "#unambiguously established by #SingleCrystal #XrayDiffraction", given that the #EPR was done in THF?" 🤔🤔nature.com/articles/s4416… #crystallography #education

Typo or misconception?🤔🤔 "space group Cc ... a ≠ b ≠ c, α = β = 90°, and γ ≠ 90°" and "the measured space groups are ... P4212 (#90, #chiral)" doi.org/10.1021/acs.jc… #crystallography #education

"If students aren’t reading, it might ... be a sign that we haven’t yet helped them care ... Invite them to engage on their own terms—with #curiosity, with #creativity, and with a sense of #ownership over their learning." 😀😀hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-mind… #education